What a year of travel adventures in our Early Retirement
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- čas přidán 16. 06. 2024
- As we come to the close of 2023, it's been quite a year of Early Retirement travel. Join us as we look back on our first full year of Early Retirement adventures after choosing to leave teaching at the age of 51. From our two trips to the US (one in an American RV), our winter adventure to the Alps, a campervan road trip from northern Spain up the French Atlantic coast and far too many micro adventures in the UK, 2023 has had it all. We retired to fulfil our wanderlust need and we are so pleased how it has gone so far.
We are Richard and Jackie and we live in the UK. We retired from teaching at the age of 51 in the summer of 2022. Our plans for early requirement include relocating to the Yorkshire Dales, developing our forever home and travelling the UK, Europe and eventually the world in our VW campervan Nelson.
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Richard & Jackie
Timeline:
00:00 Our 2023 early retirement adventures
01:44 January- winter in the Alps in a campervan
02:42 February- Arizona Roadtrip
04:22 March & April- Cottage renovations & the Yorkshire Dales
05:16 May- UK campervan adventures in our early retirement
07:20 June- VW campervan European road trip
10:09 July & August- Summer in the UK in early retirement
11:43 September- Arrran escape in a VW campervan
12:48 October- American RV road trip to the US Rockies
16:15 November- Winter Campervan adventures in the UK
16:48 December- Christmas in the Yorkshire Dales
17:50 Into 2024...What next for our Early Retirement?
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Amazing the places you managed to visit in 2023. I am still working but travelling is my passion and l love planning my next trip.
We have been really lucky and grateful that we have had the time to travel with my mum extensively this last year and be with her on some of her US travels. The planning and research is almost as fun as the trips themselves!
I cycled from Roscoff to Santander and camped on the way. It took about two weeks and I highly recommend it and hope to do it again one day.
Even cheaper than a camper van 😂
That’s quite a cycle!! I bet it was a great adventure though!
Watching this vlog as I am replying to your email! Thought this would be a good one to catch up on your year of retirement and adventures! What a wonderful year! Looking forward to watching them in sequence. Feeling inspired 😊 Thank you!
It was definitely a year to remember - spending time travelling with my mum was really special and something we couldn't have done when we were working! And some of our fondest memories are from the shortl trips in our local area - you don't need to go far to have fun!
I have all but retired 👍🏻 and this year am making a plan to have something nice planned in each month and hopefully will do other little/big trips out too 🚐😊🐾 all in the uk though as have so many places to explore that I haven’t been to 😊
It is so nice to have something to keep looking forward to whether it is a night away in the dales or a week on a Scottish island. We are starting to do some research on places to explore in the south as we have never really been anywhere except Cornwall and Devon. Happy retirement and travels in 2024 x
Ditto. So many places to see on our beautiful island 🚐
wow - whata year! Your first US trip looks very similar to the one we planned in 2020 for our 50th birthdays and 30th wedding anniversary, and of course got cancelled with Covid like so many other people. We need to rearrange it but now the dog and campervan mean its a lower priority these days. Thos photos made us think about it again though!
What a shame you didn’t make it!! We were supposed to go to Vancouver for our 25th wedding anniversary which covid cancelled. So frustrating. I understand what you mean with it not being a priority anymore when you have the van as there is so much to explore here in the uk and Europe and so much more affordable. Maybe for your 60ths, it certainly was a trip of a lifetime and we have been so lucky with mum already having accommodation which cut costs considerably. Have a great 2024 and fun travelling x
Great review 👍
Thank you 😊🚐
Happy New Year.
Thankyou and to you too. It seems to have come around so quickly!
You guys had the most amazing 2023 and we feel like we came along with you. We hope 2024 is a great year full of happy and safe travels for you also. Irvine & Karen.
Thank you. Hope you have had good weather in Florida, mum says it is due to rain for a few days when she arrives on Saturday. Happy new year
Jackie and Richard
Wow, what a year that was indeed, your drive and motivation is amazing! Thanks for bringing us along.
We were surprised ourselves at how much we had done once we sat down and went through all the photos! 🚐
Hope you have a fab 2024. You are my favourite channel. What you do is just lovely.
Ah Thank you! ☺️ we are just trying to get out and make the most of our time together. Hope 2024 is good for you too x
What a fantastic 2023 I hope the coming year brings more fab adventures 👍🏻
Thank you, we are just planning and booking the first couple of trips 🚐 looking forward to 2024. Happy new year 🥳
Wow, fantastic year, myself and my wife currently looking to bring forward our retirement after watching your channel. Can I ask where did yee stay in San Sebastián?
Hi we were a couple of miles out of town at the wecamp San Sebastián site which was nice with a pool and apparently a bus that goes into town. We loved San Sebastián. We are definitely having a go at fitting as much travel in while we can!
Like you, I've just been looking back at my 2023 photos and it is amazing what can be packed into a year. I've now done 9 months of early retirement, but in some ways I'm still getting used to it - it sometimes doesn't feel real! Looking forward to seeing what 2024 has in store for you (and me!). Regards, Andrew
I love looking back at our photos and we are trying to put together a photo book as we never print anything anymore! There are the odd moments where it does feel strange that we don’t have to prepare anything for work or check dates for booking trips or to go visit people because the answer is ‘we are always free’! Hope you are enjoying your retirement as much as us. It sounds like you get to travel a little with your house sitting - you could do with a nice lodge in Scotland coming up! All the best in 2024 x
A lodge in Scotland would be lovely, I haven’t been there for about 20 years and I’ve loved watching your videos from your trips there. I’ve just got 2 sits in Hampshire and 1 in Surrey lined up for 2024 so far, plus lots at my house. Looking forward to some non-rainy days to get back out onto the hills! Hope you both have a lovely new year whatever you get up to - I’ll be doing Skipton parkrun 🏃🏻♂️
@FrugalMrB it will be nice exploring down south and good luck in the park run 🏃🏻♂️